IDEA - 8-20-2020
by
Patrick Ryan
1,695 Words
A closed-down amusement park is a metaphor for Adam's life, once a bastion of happiness and fun, now looking like an apocalyptic war zone. Adam hasn't been back since it closed, but a childhood friend invited him to pick over the bones. Barb-wire and high fences keep a distance, which was once a welcoming ticket gate. Out of the black, a cigarette lights, "you guys want to get in?" An invitation to go back to the lighter times, carefree, before everything became so overwhelming. I don't know what he expected, maybe the rides to magically turn on or the vendors to appear selling cotton candy, what was left was dark and unsettling, a warning of what was to come. As he looks into the merry-go-round, where none of the horses ever won, he begins to realize that everything might have been a lot different if he had only done things a little differently. When they head to the haunted house, things begin to unwind; with his mind floating around in the past, the present has just become an immediate danger. If he could persevere through this, he's going to change, he's going to stop being the person he's become, dark and broken is not written in stone; but first, he has to survive.
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